CARVED FROM WOOD: Mission, B.C. 1861-1992
The Mission Foundation, 1991.

 

From its sober 1860’s beginnings as St. Mary’s Mission (a Catholic Indian residential school), the settlement of Mission evolved in the 1880’s into a CPR railway junction (“Mission Junction”), was transfigured in the 1890’s into a major manufacturing metropolis in the fevered imagination of its developer/founder J.W. Horne (Mission City), acquired a split personality in 1892 with its division into Mission City and Mission Municipality, and pulled itself back together again as the District of Mission in 1969. 

Local writer and teacher Andreas Schroeder has written the tale of his home town as only a novelist could – by focussing primarily on the city’s most dramatic and colorful narratives, rather than the dusty and interminable minutiae of which most local histories are made. The result is extremely readable, entertaining and insightful; Mission residents are lucky to have such a lively account of their city available to them.”  Abbotsford News.